De Rotterdam

De Rotterdam is conceived as a vertical city: three
interconnected mixed-use towers accommodating offices, apartments,
a hotel, conference facilities, shops, restaurants, and cafes. The
project began in 1997. Construction started at the end of 2009,
with completion in 2013. The towers are part of the ongoing
redevelopment of the old harbour district of Wilhelminapier, next
to the Erasmus Bridge, and aim to reinstate the vibrant urban
activity - trade, transport, leisure - once familiar to the
neighbourhood. De Rotterdam is named after one of the ships on the
Holland America Line, which departed from the Wilhelminapier in
decades past, carrying thousands of Europeans emigrating to the
US.